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Eve In Hollywood (2013)

by Amor Towles(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Penguin

review 1: This little novella picks up where Rules of Civility (a book I loved) leaves off for Evelyn Ross. What happens when she boards a train but doesn't get off in Chicago as planned? She stays on and takes Hollywood by storm. Towles has a wonderful way with setting - just as I loved Old New York in Rules, I loved Hollywood of the 1930's in this story. The format was interesting - 6 different chapters told from different perspectives. Five of them are people Eve meets on this journey and the last one is Eve herself. Some of these voices and story lines work better than others but all of them are fun and well written. I enjoyed being back in Towles world for a couple hours.
review 2: Eve in Hollywood is a novella-length sequel to The Rules of Civility, which I ... moreenjoyed immensely. Through a collection of interconnected short stories titled for characters with whom Eve interacts, it follows Eve's journey to and in Hollywood after she leaves Manhattan following the conclusion of Towles' debut novel. It's been several years since I read Rules and thus didn't remember a lot of the ins and outs of that plot, but that didn't affect my ability to understand the story. In fact, you could probably follow and enjoy the story without ever having read Rules. less

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